STAND. COM. REP. NO.  101

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 149

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 149 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE JURISDICTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to cede concurrent legislative jurisdiction to the United States over certain lands owned by the United States Department of the Navy or its components for defense purposes.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Navy Region Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will allow the State to achieve uniformity in the jurisdiction over the United States Department of the Navy's lands in Hawaii and will allow for reciprocal law enforcement authority.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 149 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Water & Land.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

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KEN ITO, Chair